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What the Critics Say

"Merely by tickling the keys of his word-processor King can make the flesh creep half a world away" (The Times) "Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy" (Frances Fyfield, Express) "An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote's, is so fluid that you often forget that you're reading." (Guardian)

What made the experience of listening to The Running Man the most enjoyable?

King's writing is always the best part. I can really feel like I'm inside the stories.

Any additional comments?

This foreword is great, especially for fans of King that've read his Bachman books. HOWEVER, in it, King tells the ending of the Running Man. It was written, I think, as a foreword for all the Bachman books, and someone overlooked this fact and stuck it in the beginning of this story. It really would do much more good as an afterword. Still a great story though!

The opening monologue from the author spoils the ending. Very weak Mr.King (or Bachman). :/ They probably should have left that for the end of the book. Skip like 12 minutes ahead if you have not read this book before!

I enjoyed this book but I wish they kept bringing in the game show elements especially after action scenes. They only did it like once and it really added a great effect to the story but without it became a run of the mill fugitive story. Also, if they had brought hunters more into the story it would have been nice. It's always the police that are after him and after going on about hunters it was very disappointing that they played almost no part. If they were consistent with that it could have made this book much more exciting, I still enjoy it though.

IT WAS A SHALLOW EMOTION FEELING SORRYIf you have watched the movie this is nothing like it. King kind of mentions that he did not care for the movie, he also did not like the movie Shinning. I believe in both cases the directors did what they needed to make the books popular for Movies. So, the movies are good and the books are good, but they differ in many ways.

SH@T IN YOUR BOOT AND EAT IT.This is a dark Orwellian type of book. It is very Liberal in it's political views. The United States has gone to Hell in a hand basket. The air is so polluted by large corporations that children are dying from cancers and other diseases that are pollution related. Their is a large divide between the haves and the have nots. The poor have no medical insurance and they are starving. The cops are corrupt, mean and are always calling the people maggots. THE POOR ALWAYS HAVE ITCHY A##HOLES.

All that said, I love the book, love King and love King as Bachman. Long before their was a Survivor or nothing on TV, but reality shows, King had predicted that we would be watching game shows in which real people, put their lives on the line for money. I like the main character, who despite the situations he is thrown in, remains defiant. I agree with some others that more could have been done with the game itself and with the hunters. If you read a lot of King, then you know he is more interested in making social statements then in scary books. He has a reputation for the scary, but most of his books are character driven with scary as the backdrop. He usually has a message and it us usually liberal. When they make the movies they take out the message for scary effects. Read the book and watch the movies, you will like both.

How fun that this was written 20+ years ago, about the then future, the time we live in now, the early 2000s. King predicted a very dismal USA, with so many people out of work, no real middle class, only those who have and those who do not. The cars all run on air, pollution is extreme, and people readily hurl nasty insults to one another. The premise of this running man in a corrupt game against such a backdrop, I found to be intriguing and a bit addictive. I didn't want to put the book down once I got past the first hour or so. I'm glad I gave this oldie a try.

This is a classic and gripping story, but Audible made a bad mistake by adding a comment by Stephen King BEFORE the book begins. In it he reveals the ending. Make sure you skip this, and come back to it at the end.

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